Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Nature is not human hearted.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Time stays, we go.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.